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New alliance to ensure First Nations communities share benefits of wind and solar boom
First Nations Clean Energy Network to help share the benefits of the clean energy boom and avoid a repeat of mistakes of mining companies.
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Telstra to tap 1GW of batteries and “abundant, dirt cheap clean energy” in big new play
Telstra looks to huge battery reserve and machine learning as it outlines plans to steal the march on energy incumbents in a rapidly changing market.
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The big switch: how my 'electricity deal' ended up costing me more | Bruce Mountain for The Conversation
When I switched electricity retailers, I didn’t get the cheap offer I wanted, but one of the most expensive
Households in most of Australia have been able to choose between electricity retailers for more than a decade. The main reason is to reduce their bills.
But past research by the Victoria Energy Policy Centre (at Victoria University) has found only marginal benefits in switching retailers. Our study of more than 48,000 bills from Victorian households in 2018, for example, found households typically saved less than $50 a year by switching energy providers.
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Continue reading...CP Daily: Monday November 15, 2021
Speculators slash, emitters add to California carbon holdings before prices reach $35
Rooftop solar crunches minimum demand to new lows, despite aircon use in warm weather
Rooftop solar and industrial load outages send minimum demand to a new record low in WA's main grid, despite warm weather and air-con use.
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VCM Report: VER prices stretch records as traders digest Article 6 deal
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Saskatchewan moves closer to compliance offset programme with release of draft protocols
US anger at Russian anti-satellite missile test debris
Canada: floods prompt evacuations in region hit by summer wildfires
Communities affected by extreme heat and wildfires are forced to flee their homes again after record downpour
Communities in western Canada who were forced to flee their homes this summer by wildfires and extreme heat are once again under evacuation orders after overwhelming floods across the region.
Helicopters were dispatched on Monday to Highway 7, more than 100 kilometeres east of Vancouver, to rescue about 275 people, including 50 children, who had been stranded on the road since it was blocked by a mudslide late on Sunday.
Continue reading...Climate collaboration, EV tax credit concerns to feature in Three Amigos Summit
Boris Johnson confirms that Cop26 went well – and was definitely in Glasgow
Tory benches were sparsely filled as PM addressed the Commons, though Geoffrey Cox was back
Boris Johnson did get one thing right in his Commons statement on Cop26. In the previous day’s press conference he had been adamant it had taken place in Edinburgh. Overnight he had been corrected and was now able to accurately locate the climate change summit as being in Glasgow. It was this kind of attention to detail that had made the conference such an outstanding success. Or at least the prime minister’s rose-tinted version of it.
Even so, the Conservative benches were noticeably less full than the opposition’s. Either most Tory MPs weren’t so convinced that Cop26 had been a triumph or they still haven’t forgiven Boris for making them look like mugs over the Owen Paterson vote. Or maybe they had got wind of the fact that Johnson had what sounded like the beginnings of a nasty cold – his voice was no more than a muted rasp – and didn’t want to take the chance of picking up his germs. Clearly the last two years has taught him nothing about the spread of infectious diseases.
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Continue reading...Ministers accused of ‘dithering’ as trophy hunting law delayed again
‘Animals abroad bill’ aimed at clamping down on trophy hunting and harmful animal experiences pushed back
A law that will clamp down on trophy hunting and prevent people buying harmful animal experiences such as elephant tours meant to be introduced in parliament this autumn been delayed, the Guardian has learned.
The measures should be contained in the animals abroad bill – one of several new pieces of legislation the government has planned to improve animal welfare standards.
Continue reading...What did Cop26 actually achieve? The hope and heartache from Glasgow – video explainer
The Guardian's Damian Carrington explains that in relative terms, the agreements and deals made by the 196 nations nudged the world a little closer towards the path to keeping global temperature rises below 1.5C and avoiding the worst of the climate crisis’s impacts. But in absolute terms, there is still a mountain to climb
- Cop26: the goal of 1.5C of climate heating is alive, but only just
- Cop26: where does the world go from here?
Deforestation can raise local temperatures by up to 4.5℃ – and heat untouched areas 6km away
Climate leaders call for pressure on stubborn nations before Cop27
Deal to reconvene one year after Glasgow gives vital window to compel countries towards less disastrous emissions plans
Bringing countries back to the negotiating table with updated national plans on greenhouse gas emissions will now be the hardest task for the UK and the UN for the next year, say developing countries and climate experts.
The Cop26 summit ended at the weekend with a resolution for governments to revise their targets for next year.
Continue reading...'A bubble of utopia': inside the occupied building that housed activists during Cop26 – video
Activists in Glasgow have filmed a brief look inside the restored disused building in which they housed climate justice campaigners visiting the city for the Cop26 summit that might not have had a safe shelter during the two-week event.
The people staying in Baile Hoose, a former homelessness services unit, said their main concern was the housing crisis in the city. Fox and Skye, the environmentalists who spoke to us, wanted to thank the Green Anticapitalist Front, the Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh and everyone who supported the group during the summit.
A Glasgow city council spokesperson said: 'The former Hamish Allan Centre has been closed for years and the building is not safe for human habitation. There are concerns about fire safety and possible asbestos.
'It was shut down as it did not provide acceptable accommodation at that time and the residents moved to more appropriate properties. The council did not provide access to the building and it’s concerning that people have moved in'
Continue reading...Indigenous peoples had a clear vision for Cop26, but it has not been delivered | Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
World leaders recognise the importance of indigenous rights, but still haven’t committed enough to supporting our fight
Indigenous peoples came to Cop26 in Glasgow with clear goals that we wanted to see reflected in the final results. Now it is over, we don’t see the path forward we were hoping for. There is still too much wrangling between the developed and the developing countries, with the developed nations blocking much-needed agreements on rights and funding. And overall progress towards implementing the commitments made in the Paris agreement is too slow.
We wanted to ensure that the decisions included the need to respect human rights, including indigenous peoples’ rights, in undertaking adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage measures to deal with the immediate effects of the climate crisis.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is the director of Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education) in the Philippines
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